The camel

Our Camel

We've sponsored a camel at London Zoo.

Like many zoos, London Zoo runs an animal adoption
scheme. Full details can be found here,
but basically
you send them some money which they use to care for a
particular animal and you get your name on a plaque
next to the animal's cage.

I think that the idea was first mentioned in 1999
at one of our pub meetings. It was obvious
from the start which animal we wanted to adopt. There
was a slight hiccup when we discovered that it costs
1000 pounds to adopt a camel (llamas are far cheaper), but
we decided that there was enough interest between us
raise the money.

It's taken a bit longer than expected (partly due to
the two people who were collecting the money disappearing
off to Europe to live) but on August 6th 2000 - the
second anniversary of our first meeting, we finally
became proud adopted parents of our camel. The plaque
should be up by the end of August.

In our adoption pack, we also got a load of free zoo
tickets (so we can all go and see our camel) here is a picture
of a camel (just in case we didn't know what one looks like)